Unfortunate news about the ‘63 Whirlpool

[maytag85]

The good news is I got a parts timer from John, bad news is I won’t be able to get to it until it cools down or the weather permits for me to start doing some more work to it. The machine has been stripped down to bare cabinet, doing some more cleaning and painting while it’s out of service, not difficult to do, just a little time consuming. Hopefully the timer works when I install the new contact in this upcoming fall.

 

[maytag85]

So here’s an update. The good news is the timer mostly does what it’s intended to do, bad news is you have to put downward pressure on the timer knob for it to engage on the suds return, or the spin cycle. Why it does that I don’t know, but put everything back together correctly and even re-glued the cam assembly so everything is in alignment, still not wanting to work.

Even been checking eBay persistently over the past year, still nothing. If I can’t find a replacement timer, going to have to do some sort of retrofit such as mounting a later style of console on, or find a mid to late 60’s Whirlpool with a similar style of console and transfer the parts from the ‘box’ portion of where the timer resides in the console.

 

[combo52]

1963 whirlpool imperial mark 12 timer rebuild

Yay Sean, you’ve almost got it. You just have to adjust the cam followers slightly for the spin contact. It’s just a matter of bending it a tiny bit more pressure so that it makes the contact close. This is a pretty standard practice when you’re rebuilding or repairing a timer.

John

 

[maytag85]

That’s what I’ll probably will have to do. Getting close, just needs some extra tweaking to get it right.

Really do hope it’s able to work fully when I put it through its paces this weekend.